BackTrack Volume 39 No 4 April 2025
BACKTRACK Vol.39 No.4 - APRIL 2025 More recently at Carlisle - colour photographs by Keith Dungate at Carlisle station in the late 1980s. ‘The Hub of the System’ - Jeffrey Wells presents a study of five aspects of Crewe 1867-1913. Speedlink: Part One - M.G. Sadler charts the Rise and Fall of a Railfreight Brand. Britain’s Railways and the Boer War 1899-1902 - Part One by a study by Berenice Baynham. The Birkenhead Joint Line: Part Two - Stan Yates concludes his history of the Hooton to West Kirby branch. The LNER in Colour - five pages recording the LNER both pre- and post-war from the Colour-Rail Collection. Souvenirs of the South Western - archive photos of London & South Western Railway locomotives. The Failure of Post-War Reconstruction and the Railways Act 1921 - Gary Bonsall describes the political and practical machinations which culminated in the Grouping in 1923. Past Signs - Geoffrey Skelsey’s colour photographs of railway station signs from nationalisation onwards. An accident while dismantling a railway - Alistair F. Nisbet describes a misfortune on the wartime branch serving the Lenabo Airship Base in Aberdeenshire. The Scottish Quartet - Gavin Morrison’s colour spread featuring the four pre-grouping Scottish locomotives operated by BR in the late 1950s/early 1960s. The Decades of Stage and Mail Coach ‘Piggy-Backing’ - Tom Nicholls reflects on when stagecoaches completed parts of their journey ‘on the railway’.
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